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RADIOGRAPHIE ABDOMINALE POSITION DEBOUT [1 record]

Record 1 2013-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
CONT

Rather than fluid levels on an erect abdominal x-ray, the physician should evaluate the film for the dilated bowel, or if fluid filled for linear bubbles of gas (string-of-beads sign) ... corresponding to air trapped between the small bowel folds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
CONT

La présence d’air libre dans la cavité péritonéale doit être écartée au moyen d’un examen radioscopique avant de tenter une réduction par lavement; il convient de réaliser une radiographie abdominale en position debout ou en décubitus avant de tenter une réduction par lavement si l’examen radioscopique révèle la présence d’air libre.

Spanish

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